(ANSA) - ROME, APR 26 - Veteran Italian journalist, writer, author and television and radio host Vincenzo Mollica will receive the 'David Speciale' during the 69th edition of the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian Oscars, at the awards ceremony on Friday 3 May, organisers said Friday.
    "Vincenzo Mollica has been recounting the Italian entertainment world with passion and sobriety, enthusiasm and competence," said Piera Detassis, president and artistic director of the Italian cinemas academy.
    "His unique style, empathy and his art of the interview have been for decades an example for those who have taken up a journalistic career.
    "He is a real inspiration for me, for everyone a maestro who is able to combine pop, auteur films, great actors and directors." Mollica, 71, told ANSA "this special David comes as a nice present...It is a moment of joy, the same feeling that in 40 years of career I have recounted the cinema, the artists, the technicians". (ANSA).